«Werkman was a printer by trade and the materials of the printing press—the ink, the paper, the marks of the press—were not only his means but his message. An advocate of truth to media (ink as ink rather than as a representational means), Werkman was a pure modernist in the Greenbergian* sense, but for the artist materiality and truth to labor practices were far from apolitical. A member of the Dutch resistance, Werkman was murdered by the Gestapo days before Dutch liberation.» Alston W. Purvis